Arnold Schwarzenegger told Fox News' Sean Hannity Monday that he believes he and estranged wife Maria Shriver are likely to reconcile one day, despite his affair with the couple's household staffer which produced a love child and sparked the pair's separation in July 2011. "I'm the forever optimist. So I do see that Maria and I get together eventually," said Schwarzenegger.

Schwarzenegger told Hannity he was "embarrassed" and "ashamed" about his affair with household staffer Mildred Baena: "I created a huge screw-up. I had this child, and it destroyed my family. It was a situation where I couldn't even blame anybody else but myself, because my wife was a fantastic wife... my kids were fantastic. The thing that I cherished the most, you know, I destroyed by some stupid things that I've done. So now for me it's important to kind of rebuild again, get the trust back with the kids and with my wife and hopefully get back together again. Bring the family back together again."